Sam Coren

Sam Coren is a public scholar, creative practitioner and PhD candidate with a lifelong interest in the history and nature(s) of cities. He is currently working on a dissertation titled Watershed Metropolis: A Fifty Year History of Rhode Island’s Urban Rivers. Sam has also exhibited as a research-based artist at sites in Providence and upstate New York, exploring humans’ relationships to distressed landscapes, and is currently serving as co-organizer, with Doors Open RI, of an exhibition titled Providence Waterways.